help integration in RAD Studio 2009

[Andrew]

I notice that TeeChart 2010 only comes with .hlp and .chm files. Where are the Microsoft Help (.HxC, .HxS, .HxT etc) formatted files required to integrate the help into RAD Studio?

[Marc]

Hello,

We've placed an installer for HTML Help v2 format files on the TeeChart VCL download page, http://www.steema.com/download/vcl.

Please note that presently there is no installer for these files, we'll prepare one. In the meantime you could use Helpware's Far tool (see http://www.helpware.net )to plug the TeeChart help collection to the RAD Studio help.

Regards,
Marc Meumann

[Andrew]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the help files. I managed to install them into RAD Studio 2009, but there are some problems:

1. You need to remove references to DTD files when building a help collection otherwise they don't install properly. See http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2tutorial.htm#dtd for details on this. I had to manually change the hxc file to remove the DTD section before the help would install.
2. Some images seem to be missing - see 'teechart help.jpg' in the attached file. The help seems to be referencing ms-help://embarcadero.rs2009/TeeChartVCL2010.rs2009/TeeChartVCL2010/Library/readonly.gif and published.gif, but those files don't exist in TeeChartVCL2010.HxS.
3. When looking at the index, each class has a section named 0events, 0methods and 0properties. This may be by design but seems odd. See 'teechart help.jpg' in the attachment.
4. No TeeChart sections appear under the Contents tab - I'm assuming this is by design.
5. I haven't managed to work out how to get filtering working - even though a filter is registered successfully, when I try to filter to just show TeeChart topics, nothing appears. See 'teechart filter not working.jpg'. I assume this is because I have the filter query wrong in my h2reg ini file ("DocSet"="TeeChart VCL 2010"), or that no attributes have been associated with the individual topics.

As I mentioned, I managed to hack together an ini file which I used to register the help file using the h2reg application which is shipped with RAD Studio. You can do it with this command (it assumes the help files are in the same directory as the ini file):

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"C:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0\Help\Doc\H2Reg" -R "cmdfile=c:\dev\TeeChartVCL2010.ini"

Cheers,

Andrew

[Yeray]

Hi Andrew,

We haven't forgotten you. We'll answer you asap.